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Triumph of the King: The Message of 2 Samuel is unavailable, but you can change that!

The history of David—the unfolding drama of 2 Samuel—gives us a slice of life in the real world. We see people in their true colors: the petty, selfish, murderous, yet fiercely loyal, Joab; the war-lord Abner, honorable perhaps, but only when it suited him; the sad, incompetent Ish-Bosheth; and the miserable and vicious sons of Rimmon, who murdered Ish-Bosheth in his sleep. And there is David,...

thinking that is constantly and progressively being informed and reformed by the teaching of God’s Word and the leading of the Holy Spirit.3 As it happened, David’s thought about building a house for God was to be turned down gently by the Lord. David was wrong on this score. But it was a blessing to him to have given his mind to the ways he might glorify God. Why? Because it is in the nature of true communion with God that we learn his will through his ‘No’s and well as his ‘Yes’es. God’s believing
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